Chapter 118: CHAPTER 118
"The carriage going to Apentus, leaving in 5 minutes! It's almost full, so hurry up!"
Since I missed the carriage heading to Drivan, I had to take a Apentus carriage. She knew it in her head.
But for some reason, my feet didn't move.
'What should I do? Really, what should i do?'
When i got up from my seat, i seat down again. Got up again and seat again. after that, while i was sitting and tapping my feet nervously. Someone took the last seat in the carriage that headed to Apentus city, and when it was full, the carriage departed without further delay. I sighed, staring blankly at the place where the carriage heading to Apentus had left.
'To-tomorrow let's take the carriage heading to Apentus.'
Thinking about my hesitation mind, I booked a room at an inn near the transport station. But the next day, too, I couldn't get on the carriage. I sat down on the same bench as yesterday and tapped my foot on the floor nervously. I missed all the carriage heading to Drivan and Apentus, so I got up again and walked around the carriage station. I had a fever that evening, so i had to spend another 3 days in pain and resting.
'I will get caught if I continue like this.'
I was so anxious that as soon as my fever subsided, I went straight to the carriage station. But today the surrounding was so cold, that i think my whole body felt like it was freezing. While i was waiting for a carriage, sheltering from the snow under the roof of a shabby carriage station, I could hear the conversation of the people around me.
"Have you seen the person Duke Ludwig wants in the flyer?"
"Oh, I also saw the flyer on my way here earlier. She's a pretty woman, isn't she?"
"They also put a high cash rewards on it too."
"Aren't the Knights of Ludwig coming here soon? I think they going to check this area to see if she was here mixing with people who go to the countryside."
"Look, even though she's going to die soon, there's no way she's willing to ride a carriage in this shabby place, since she's from a noble family right? She must have borrowed a carriage from a relative she knew and run way with that."
The noble woman that about to die soon, is here.
'This is really the last time.'
My choices and decisions that have been delayed for several days in a row cannot be delayed any longer. The carriage going to Drivan departed in 10 minutes, and the carriage going to Apentus will departure in 20 minutes.
'Don't be stubborn, don't have any regrets. . . . go to Drivan.'
After i made up my mind, I bought three freshly baked potatoes at the carriages Station convenience store. If i have it, it will be warm, and since i haven't had breakfast yet, it will be okay for a meal later. I filled my bottle with water, so this should be enough until we arrived at the first stop place in Ramolo. Even after escaping, I always felt anxious because I realized that I still hadn't met level 3 exception conditions yet. And in the meantime, i will never forget Killian.
'Maybe I can meet someone else and start a new life. Also maybe we can get along like a good couple. But is this. . . .the life I want?'
It reminded me of the child who cried because she was jealous of me, and asked me why I had to die when I still had a chance to live. The child who was lying next to me in the leukemia ward, and closed her eyes forever while I was receiving a bone marrow transplant. Even though I'm thinking about that child right now, I don't feel like I have a goal to live. Like an old lamp that has burned out to the last drop of oil, I am so exhausted.
'Maybe my mission in this world is to be beheaded by Killian. Maybe that how the narrative is completed.'
There's something impactful and something positive about my existence, it seemed that I had succeeded made Killian escapes from his blind love for Lizzy.
'So if i die, Killian will be able to love others with peace of mind.'
I sat down on the bench again, while holding a warm potato wrapped in a paper bag in my arms. Then i watched the carriages going to Drivan and the carriages going to Apentus depart from there. When I saw the empty place where the carriage had left, I wasn't anxious or sad. When the knights wearing the Ludwig family insignia arrived at the carriage station, the potatoes in my arms almost completely cooled down.
"There will be a brief inspection! we're just want to check your face, so don't panic or be afraid and follow the knight's orders!"
While the people were confused by the sudden inspection, I put the paper bag containing the cooled baked potato into my bag and carefully trimmed my clothes. My face still had visible bruises from Sophia's brutal beating and I was worried that Killian would look at me with disgust.
'You, Even to you going to die, you still worried about those useless things like that. . . . '
They say the late wind is scary, He's was willing to take out his liver and gallbladder for his first love, who he fell in love with after she died. No, did you already take it out? I chuckled and slowly took off my shawl and scarf that covered my head and face.
And I waited for the Knights to approaching me.
"Uh. . . . Uh. . . . ?"
The knight who looked at my face respectfully tried to leave but then turned his head back again and made a strange noise.
"Uh. . . . Excuse me. . . ."
"You're late."
"Yes?"
The knight that came to catch me seemed more embarrassed for some reason.
"Why, what's the matter?"
The person who looked like the knight leader came towards us and asked the knight in front of me.
"Oh, no, that's. . . . .Maybe. . . .I think we found her. . . ."
"What?"
I slowly turned my head and looked at the knight leader and when he saw me, the knight leader also looking so surprised that he also make a noise "Oh" like the other knight did earlier.
"I been waited. Let's go now."
I tried to smile and got up. But maybe it's because I've been sitting in a cold place for a long time, my legs are stiff and staggering. Fortunately, the knight in front of me held me, but he grabbed my forearm so hard that I had no choice but scream in pain.
"Ark! Oh, it's hurt!"
The knights were startled and let go his hand and I held on to the pillar next to me and exhaled. I managed to stand alone, but my legs kept shaking, so I can't walk properly.
"I'm sorry for trouble you since I'm a wanted person, but can you give me a little support? My legs can't move very well. . . . "
According to the law, as a criminal I have to be tied up when I walk into the duke's residence. The head of the knight seemed to be thinking about something, so he called another knight.
"Both of you, support her sides by side."
"That. . . .is she returning like this?"
"I think we can just let her walk alone near the mansion."
I thanked the leader of the knights for his decision.
'Now, I'm going to meet Killian!'
I smiled even though I was on my way to die.
* * *
Killian was very lucky to encounter a man snooping around Wellesley's villa.
"He was snooped around this remote place as if he knew it well! It's seem like he looking for something!"
"If he know this place well, there is a high possibility that he's are one of those mercenaries who managed to escape."
When the knight who captured the man and made a remark, the man fell flat on the floor and trembled.
However, Killian felt like he was grasping something, then he knelt in front of the man, grabbed his hand, and asked.
"By the way, do you know the brown hair woman who was trapped here? She has reddish brown hair, she has a height almost same like me, and she has brown eyes. . . . If you tell me a little about her whereabouts, I won't think you guilty. "
Hearing those words, the man looked even more frightened and he couldn't even make eye contact with him. In fidgeted, he barely opening his mouth.
"Are-are you going to catch her?"
"I'm desperately looking for her. I must find her quickly!"
"That-that woman. . . . She said she was our captain's sister, but she has nothing to do with them! She was a good person!"
Hearing these words from a man who knew Edith and even admired her made Killian eyes shining with light hope.
"Yes, that's right! She is not guilty of anything! Have you seen her by any chance? Please tell me something more about her! I'm her husband!"
Then the man continued the conversation as if he was greatly relieved.
"Well, actually. . . . I am a mercenary who was ordered by them to looc her up in the underground warehouse. But when I heard about her situation, I felt sympathy for her. However at that time, I couldn't give her much help. . . .but i really want to help her. So I loosened the rope that tied her a little."
It was only then that Killian could see, how Edith able to untie the rope and get out of there alone.
"Then she thanked me and gave me and my colleague the last ruby necklace she had. She also told us that the Duke knights might arrive soon, so she told me and my colleagues to run away of there immediately. If it wasn't for her, my colleague and I would have been dead there too."
"Were you one of the mercenaries who ran away first without receiving any money."
"Yes. After that, we just found out who the captain hire us and who is the person we kidnapped, but no matter how much we heard the news, we didn't hear any news about the woman, so we came here in a hurry."
Killian thanked him several times and holding the man's hand more tightly. He was very thankful that the mercenaries hired by Shane save Edith, when she didn't get any help from the Ludwig family rescuers. The man also gave him a very important hints.
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